The man pages are the documentation for users? I would say stay away from gnome if your fans are running all the time, it’s a terrible DE and you don’t need it

The man pages are the documentation for users? I would say stay away from gnome if your fans are running all the time, it’s a terrible DE and you don’t need it. Just install eg fvwm or xfce (or lxde or whatever you like.) >I only set up once and don't want to go through the trouble understanding how it works, e.g. wifi) That’s going to cause issues no matter which OS you run. Just read the wpa_supplicant man page (or the appropriate documentation if your distro uses something else and you don’t want to change it.) You can skim for just the things you need and grab an example config, it’s not a hard tool to use and it only takes a couple minutes. After you do this you won’t be surprised when it breaks in a way you don’t understand.